A Multidisciplinary Investigation of a Polycythemia Vera Cancer Cluster of Unknown Origin

Cancer cluster investigations rarely receive significant public health resource allocations due to numerous inherent challenges and the limited success of past efforts. In 2008, a cluster of polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer with unknown etiology, was identified in northeast Pennsylvania. A multidisciplinary group of federal and state agencies, academic institutions, and local healthcare providers subsequently developed a multifaceted research portfolio designed to better understand the cause of the cluster. This research agenda represents a unique and important opportunity to demonstrate that cancer cluster investigations can produce desirable public health and scientific outcomes when necessary resources are available

American Legacy Foundation, First Look Report 11. Youth Tobacco Cessation. Results from the 2000 national youth tobacco survey

Using information from a national youth tobacco survey, this report explores tobacco cessation among yoth aged 12 to 19. It describes current smoking behavior, cessation attempts, and factors that influence youth quitting behavior. This report is based on data from the 2000 National Youth Tobacco Survey

The Classroom [Spring 2005]

CETL Spring 2005 NewsletterIn this issue: Teaching First Year Students; Mentoring One Freshman at a Time; The Classroom Interview: John Stein; My First Semester at Tech: Four Freshman Share Their Journals; In the CETL Library; The Classroom Interview: Dr. Gordon Kingsley and Dr. Michael Loss; The Fellowship Communication Program and the First-Year Student; How Self-Regulated are First-Year GT Students When it Comes to Learning?; Spring 2005 EventsGeorgia Institute of Technology. Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learnin

Exploring the neural substrates of approach motivation and time perception

Past research has shown that affects high in approach motivation, the impetus to move toward a desired goal or object, may hasten the perception of time as compared to a neutral state (Gable & Poole, 2012). The current experiments sought to replicate and expand this past work by exploring the neural correlates of approach motivation and time perception. Participants in two experiments completed a pair of time bisection tasks designed to measure the speed at which time passed during and after presentation of neutral pictures and high approach-motivated positive pictures. Electroencephalography recordings were taken during each task to measure specific neural correlates of approach motivation (i.e., alpha-delta band power, frontal cortical asymmetry) and time perception (i.e., the contingent negative variation). Overall, results revealed a hastening of time during the high approach-motivated positive (vs. neutral) pictures/intervals. In addition, results suggest that high approach-motivated positive (vs. neutral) affect may enhance contingent negative variation amplitudes and alpha-delta power. Taken together, these results shed new light on how approach motivation and time perception function within the brain, and emphasize the importance of examining approach-related affects in neurophysiological research. (Published By University of Alabama Libraries

A Multidisciplinary Investigation of a Polycythemia Vera Cancer Cluster of Unknown Origin

Cancer cluster investigations rarely receive significant public health resource allocations due to numerous inherent challenges and the limited success of past efforts. In 2008, a cluster of polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer with unknown etiology, was identified in northeast Pennsylvania. A multidisciplinary group of federal and state agencies, academic institutions, and local healthcare providers subsequently developed a multifaceted research portfolio designed to better understand the cause of the cluster. This research agenda represents a unique and important opportunity to demonstrate that cancer cluster investigations can produce desirable public health and scientific outcomes when necessary resources are available